Gadaffi’s son killed in Nato airstrike on home

The 29-year-old Saif al-Arab Gadaffi was in a large villa in a residential area of Tripoli when bombs hit the building

A missile claimed to be from a coalition strike in the house of Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (Louafi Larbi)

The Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, escaped a Nato assassination
attempt that killed his youngest son and three grandsons, a spokesman for
his government said last night.

Saif al-Arab Gadaffi, 29, was in a large villa in a residential area of
Tripoli when bombs hit the building. Colonel Gadaffi and his wife were in
the same building but were unharmed, said the spokesman, Musa Ibrahim.

The villa was said to have been badly damaged in the raid and an unexploded
bomb was reportedly found in the wreckage. Journalists based in the Libyan
capital were taken to see the scene before being told who the victim was.

The announcement came hours after Nato had rejected a ceasefire call from
Gadaffi, insisting that he should stop his attacks on rebel-held cities.
There was no immediate reaction from Nato to the Libyan announcement of the
deaths.